We offer visual awareness training that can be fitted to your group or organisation’s needs. We believe that for social inclusion to be truly embedded in our society, we need to open up several lines and paths of dialogue, discussions and activation.
This service is available to any organisation including small businesses, educational institutions and local authorities.
Taking part in this training will give the attendees a much greater awareness of the issues facing blind and visually impaired people and an improved understanding of how-to guide, assist, and support them. Our visually impaired partner trainers offer their lived experience that adds to the value and content of the sessions.
Depending on your requirements, training can be run as either half-day or full-day sessions.
Training will include:
Contact us to discuss your requirements.
Huge congratulations go to our cohort of sighted guides on the completion of our visual awareness training. After months working closely with Andrew and Lynn and gaining valuable experience guiding, supporting and assisting at several of our events, the sighted guides have now completed their visual awareness training, which included a half-day training session.
Visual Awareness Training aims to give people an understanding of sight loss, discussing some of the issues the visually impaired may face daily and the support that can be offered. Included in our training sessions are discussions about the range of sight conditions, the emotional impact of sight loss, practising sighted guiding skills, possible sight loss related reasonable adjustments, discussions around legal obligations and good practice when communicating with blind and partially sighted people. We also show how products from our in-house digital imaging projects are used to share accessible information with blind and partially-sighted clients and participants.
Congrats again to Ismael Moga, Ryan Prince and Shisheng Wang.
Image description: Ismael receives his certificate.
He is standing in the middle and holding his certificate, with Lynn on the left and Andrew on the right. They are all smiling.
Image description: Ryan receives his certificate.
He is standing in the middle and holding his certificate, with Lynn on the left and Andrew on the right. They are all smiling.
Image description: Shisheng receives her certificate.
She is standing on the right with Andrew on the left. They are both smiling.
